Queue GEDmatch.com. While pretty basic, it lets you play around with your DNA in different algorithms and databases. And it’s free! My results are pretty similar across the board here, and it’s helping me get a bigger picture. However, I still find much of the science behind the stuff confusing. But one of the tests guessed my eye color correctly (by reading my DNA), so I find it amusing.

Does anyone else know of any free places to view your DNA in various contexts? I’d love to know!

My conclusion for DNA.ancestry.com: At least I have a raw file of my DNA that I can transfer to other places now–and some good guesses to lead me to the right directions. I can also go back as often as I like and check for updates to my “estimates” and DNA matches. I’ve found a few cousins already! I don’t feel like Ancestry’s DNA pool is is really that large and therefore their estimates aren’t as accurate as I’d like. But DNA can only tell you so much anyways, and I don’t regret doing it. But I do wonder if it was worth that price tag just to help them continue to work out the kinks in their system/grow their database.